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Improved weather-related services in cities in the face of climate,
weather and population changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Dr Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala, USA
Energy
Weather, climate and water information and the energy sector . . . . . . . .94
Dr Laurent Dubus, Electricité de France R&D
Meteorological services and the social and economic benefits of energy
saving in the Beijing heat supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Xie Pu and Duan Yuxiao, Beijing Meteorological Bureau, Beijing, China
The effect of climate change on glaciers and hydropower in Iceland . . . .99
Tómas Jóhannesson, Icelandic Meteorological Office
Árni Snorrason, Hydrological Service Division, National Energy Authority
Transportation
Aviation meteorological services: pioneers in supporting decision
making for safe, efficient and economic air transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Dr Herbert Puempel, World Meteorological Organization Secretariat
WMO and ICAO: working together for international air navigation . . .103
OM Turpeinen, International Civil Aviation Organization Secretariat
Airlines and weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Adriaan Meijer, International Air Transport Association
Applications of weather and climate information in road transportation:
examples from Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Brian Mills, Adaptation and Impacts Research Division, Atmospheric Science
and Technology Directorate, Environment Canada; Jean Andrey, Department of
Geography, University of Waterloo
The economic value of snowstorm forecasts in winter road-maintenance
decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Erik Liljas, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Construction
Sustainable, energy-efficient building: the BCIL approach . . . . . . . . . .114
Chandrashekar Hariharan, Biodiversity Conservation (India) Ltd
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Using what we know about disasters– for safer lives and livelihoods . .120
Sálvano Briceño, Director, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Learning new methodologies to deal with large disasters: near space
monitoring of thermal signals associated with large earthquakes . . . . .124
Dimitar Ouzounov, Shahid Habib, Fritz Policelli and Patrick Taylor, NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
Disaster mitigation and preparedness: flood forecasting and warning . .127
Dr Bruce Stewart, President, WMO Technical Commission for Hydrology
Satellite remote sensing for early warning of food security crises . . . . .129
Molly E. Brown, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban
communities in Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Ian Douglas, Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Development,
University of Manchester; Jack Campbell and Yasmin McDonnell, Emergencies
and Conflict Team, ActionAid International
Climate change and its impact on natural risk reduction practices,
preparedness and mitigation programmes in the Caribbean . . . . . . . . .136
David A. Farrell, Kathy-Ann Caesar, and Kim Whitehall, Caribbean Institute
for Meteorology and Hydrology, Barbados
A virtual centre for disaster reduction in South America: monitoring,
prediction and early warning of severe weather events . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Antonio Divino Moura, Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia, Brazil
The rising incidence of natural disaster events on the
Korean Peninsula due to climate change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Dugkeun Park, PhD, Senior Analyst, National Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA), Seoul, Korea
Adapting to climate change through resilience to natural disasters . . . .145
Sanjiv Nair, G Srinivasan and KJ Ramesh, Department of Science &
Technology, New Delhi, India
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